Faculty Book Talk: Min Ye on FDI in India and China
Min Ye, Associate Professor of International Relations and Academic Coordinator of the Asian Studies Program, discussed her book Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in India and China as part of the 2016-2017 Faculty Book Talk Series on October 3, 2016.
The event was attended by Pardee School faculty and students and included a talk by Ye on the book as well as a question and answer session.
In the book, Ye offers a comparative and historical analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization in China and India and explains how the return of these countries’ diasporas affects such liberalization. She examines diasporic investment from Western FDIs and finds that diasporas, rather than Western nations, have fueled globalization in the two Asian giants.
Ye described her approach in researching and writing Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in India and China.
“Different from the institutional approach, I look into discourses and economic statistics and the reason I do this is I want to know what happened in China and India during these three decades when they are thinking about and reacting to globalization, choosing or resisting foreign capital,” Ye said.
Ye said the main question her book tries to address is how China and India adopted different policies on foreign direct investment, and how their policies changed the role of foreign direct investment in development.
“The Chinese were really an anomaly when they became open to foreign direct investment, embracing the foreign capital,” Ye said. “It was a very unexpected outcome, and because of China’s success in using foreign direct investment it actually changed development discourse regarding the roles of foreign direct investment.”
Find out about upcoming installments of the 2016-2017 Faculty Book Talk Series here.